The days of the last decade, when aging Orientalists like Bernard Lewis and Samuel P. Huntington steered the discourse against Islam from inside their ivory towers, were waning, replaced by new, sharper voices. Calls to “wage war on Islam” were not only coming from fringe evangelical voices in the Deep South, but were being sounded by liberals on bright stages with big stars like Bill Maher, or on massive podcasts like the Joe Rogan Experience.

XREF: Connects to broader commentary on how the 'regressive left'/'new atheism' debates of the 2010s melded with Islamophobia on mainstream podcast and TV platforms.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 315